The market cross, the prison and prison wall, The Merchants House ( 8 Market Place ), Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, Charlton Viaduct, the former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church at Townsend, and Bowlish House, Old Bowlish House and Park House in Bowlish are the town's nine grade II * listed buildings.

* Millau Viaduct is the bridge with the tallest piers in the world: 341 metres tall ( 1, 118 ft ) and roadway 10 metres high ( 886 ft ), spanning the Tarn River in France.

By 1971, the full route was completed between the junction with the M1 motorway at Rugby and the A38 road several miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, including Bromford Viaduct between Castle Bromwich ( J5 ) and Gravelly Hill ( J6 ), which at 3½ miles is the longest viaduct in Great Britain.

* Hogan's Alley ( Vancouver ), a nickname for an alley between Prior and Union streets in Vancouver that had been the city's small African-Canadian neighbourhood and jazz district until demolished for an off-ramp for the Georgia Viaduct

Part of the present building stands on the site of the medieval Newgate Gaol, on Old Bailey, a road which follows the line of the City of London's fortified wall ( or bailey ), which runs from Ludgate Hill to the junction of Newgate Street and Holborn Viaduct.

* Ribblehead-here is the Ribblehead Viaduct ( originally named Batty Moss Viaduct ) 440 yd ( 396 m ), with 24 piers

* The film Saint Monica ( 2002 ), set in Toronto, prominently features the Viaduct.

From his proposal sprang the Houston Street Viaduct ( originally named the Oak Cliff Viaduct ), begun October 24, 1910, and opened to traffic February 22, 1912, acclaimed as the longest concrete bridge in the world.

The largest part of the Measure DD work: " 12th Street Project " Demolition / Construction of the replacement of the Frickstad Viaduct ( built 1950 ), aka " 12th Street Dam ", and the roadways and tunnels between the Kaiser Convention Center and the southern end of Lake Merritt begun in mid-May 2010 is scheduled to be complete in Fall 2012.

* The highest pylons in the world: pylons P2 and P3, and in height respectively, broke the French record previously held by the Tulle and Verrières Viaducts (), and the world record previously held by the Kochertal Viaduct ( Germany ), which is at its highest ;

In general, the more prosperous areas are along and above Carrera 33 ( Cabecera area ) and to the south, over the Viaduct in Floridablanca ( Cañaveral area ), while the poorest areas are to the north ( Kennedy area ).

The Garabit Viaduct ( Viaduc de Garabit in French ) is a railway arch bridge spanning the River Truyère near Ruynes-en-Margeride ( Fr ), Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region.

In Kansas City, US 73 previously followed U. S. Route 24 into downtown Kansas City, Kansas, terminating at the Intercity Viaduct ( Lewis and Clark Viaduct ), before Interstate 435 was completed.

The U. S. Highway meets the eastern end of US 250 ( Broad Street ), then curves north and passes under the Leigh Street Viaduct, which carries SR 33.

The line was of little significance until the late 19th century, when the London & North Western Railway ( L & NWR ), which had absorbed the L & BR constructed a line, via Nassington and King's Cliffe to Seaton, below Welland Viaduct.

Before the sectorisation of BR in 1982 the system was split into regions: those operating around London were London Midland Region ( Marylebone, Euston, St Pancras and Broad Street ), Southern Region ( Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, Holborn Viaduct, Cannon Street and London Bridge ), Western Region ( Paddington ) and Eastern Region ( King's Cross, Moorgate, Broad Street, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street ).

* October 19-Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct ( still in use today ), dies ( d. 1806 ).

Some of Reichenbach's most remarkable structures date from this era, including its Rathaus ( 1837 – 1839 ), the railway station ( 1846 ), and world's largest brick bridge, the Göltzsch Viaduct ( 1846 – 1851 ).

The project rebuilt the viaduct section of I-794 between the interchange and the Milwaukee River, I-43 from the interchange to North Avenue ( including the bridges carrying city streets that spanned the freeway ), the Hillside Interchange that connected I-43 to Highway 145, and I-94 from the interchange to 26th Street ( including rebuilding the north end of the 16th Street Viaduct, officially known as the James E. Groppi Unity Bridge ).

* Ada Yonath ( born 1939 ), Israeli biochemist

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota

All staff had to sign the Official Secrets Act ( 1939 ), and were instructed that they should never discuss their work outside their immediate section.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Entitled Die Deutsche Kriegsstärke ( German War Strength ), it was published in Paris in 1939.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1939 ), aka Bromberg Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

* Aleke Banda ( 1939 – 2010 ), Malawian politician

* Andreas Gruentzig ( 1939 – 1985 ), first developed balloon angioplasty

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

For Heinlein, personal liberation included sexual liberation, and free love was a major subject of his writing starting in 1939, with For Us, The Living.

Above Suspicion ( 1939 ) by Helen MacInnes, about an anti-Nazi husband and wife spy team, features literate writing and fast-paced, intricate, and suspenseful stories occurring against contemporary historical backgrounds.

Although Lewis originally conceived what would become The Chronicles of Narnia in 1939, he did not finish writing the first book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe until 1949.

The design of pennies that date pre 1939 had the sovereign's head on the obverse ( front ) and the reverse was totally covered in writing making the result very easy and quick to see.

Sturges and Paramount producer Albert Lewin had some written disagreement in 1939 about the development of the script, with Lewin writing to Sturges, " the first two-thirds of the script, in spite of the high quality of your jokes, will require an almost one hundred percent rewrite.

" Seconding this analysis of the book's emphasis on form over content, Paul Rosenfeld reviewed Finnegans Wake in 1939 with the suggestion that " the writing is not so much about something as it is that something itself in Finnegans Wake the style, the essential qualities and movement of the words, their rhythmic and melodic sequences, and the emotional color of the page are the main representatives of the author's thought and feeling.

Reviewing Hobsbawm's 2011 How to Change the World in The Wall Street Journal, Michael Moynihan argued: Reviewing the same book, Francis Wheen argued in a similar vein: " When writing about how the anti-fascist campaigns of the 1930s brought new recruits to the communist cause, he cannot even bring himself to mention the Hitler-Stalin pact, referring only to ' temporary episodes such as 1939 – 41 '.

John Spivak, writing in 1939, devotes a chapter to the Set.

When Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, and his connection with his newspaper was severed, he taught himself English and began writing for English magazines.

In October 1939, American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing The Last Tycoon, a fictionalized biography of Thalberg, naming the protagonist Monroe Stahr to represent Thalberg.

* Robert A. Heinlein explored the concept of free love throughout his writing career, starting with his first novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs in 1939.

In 1939, while still a junior at North High in Omaha, he got his start in the music industry by writing arrangements of vocal ballads for local Mickey Mouse bands, like the Nat Towles band.

In 1939, he retired from the diplomatic corps and returned to Mexico, where he organized what is today El Colegio de México and dedicated himself to writing and teaching.

After writing a number of chapter drafts of the biography, she abandoned that project, too, after submitting the first chapter to Emily Coleman in 1939, whose response was not encouraging.

It was his first robot story and writing commenced on June 10, 1939.

In 1939, Peter Fleming claimed to have produced an ‘ update ’ to the Tanaka Memorial, by writing an imaginary report on a secret Allied strategy conference attended by Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-Shek, and having it leaked to the Japanese.

* 1939: Ronald G. Callvert, The Oregonian ( Portland, Oregon ), " for his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled ' My Country ' Tis of Thee.

The law failed to inspire him, however, and he turned instead to writing, moving to London and supporting himself as a freelance writer for newspapers while writing four novels and a play in the space of five years ( 1934 – 1939 ).

As early as 1939, he was working with Bobby Hackett, George Brunies, and Zutty Singleton, as well as writing arrangements for Earl Hines.

He also started writing scripts and dialogues for Hindi films, including Kishan Kanhaya ( 1936 ) and Apni Nagariya ( 1939 ).

* Every Creature of God is Good ( 1939 ), writing as Alan Gould

Wright had just finished writing this case when he died suddenly in New York on April 11, 1939.

By 1939, Otto had taken over all of the writing, leaving Earl to act as his literary agent.